US-based semiconductor company Intel has introduced a new Internet of Things platform reference architecture, as well as hardware and software products, adding to its offerings in the IoT marketplace.
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“Today, Intel further solidifies its position in the IoT and continues to deliver a comprehensive set of building blocks with a strong ecosystem to address the IoT opportunity”, Doug Davis, Intel IoT Group senior vice president, commented. New Analytics Functionality Built In The greatest value of IoT is realized when new business insights are revealed from the massive volume of data generated by smart and connected things.
The products include new low-power Quark processors and microcontrollers for devices that will connect to the Internet of Things, and cloud services from its Wind River subsidiary to make it easier for companies to network these devices and upload data for analysis.
Intel has released new processors and free cloud services as part of its latest push to capitalize on the nascent Internet of Things market.
The Intel Quark microcontroller D1000 is now available, while the Intel Quark microcontroller D2000 will be available by the end of this year.
The platform also opens the way for a wide range of individuals who want to participate in IoT development.
The first company to announce IoT solutions based on the new Intel IoT Platform is SAP, which will develop its IoT enterprise end-to-end solutions utilizing the Intel platform along with its SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
But rather than focusing on a single function, Krzanich stressed the need for a comprehensive suite of services for bringing experiments to market faster, pointing back to Intel’s own IoT platform unveiled last December.
Wind River’s new solution offers makers and commercial developers a more simplified method as well as an accelerated IoT application and device development, indicating that they can start building applications within just 10 minutes. Smart building provider Yanzi is using the processor to develop the Yanzi Plug and Yanzi Motion, an energy monitoring sensor and a system for the optimised management of smart buildings. The Quark D1000 MCU became available on Tuesday and the D2000 MCU will ship by the end of the year.
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Levi’s is also using the IntelTrusted Analytics Platform (TAP), which is created to help make data actionable and can be integrated in an end-to-end IoT solution. In addition, TAP integrates with the Intel IoT Platform reference architecture for data management, protocol abstraction, workload distribution and compute.
